InfoQ·4yThe Spotify System Model: Automated Architecture Visualization at Spotify
Spotify engineers recently published how they standardized architecture diagrams at the company. They defined a standard system model named the Spotify Software Model and adapted the C4 model to visualize it. This combination created a shared language used across the organization, which helps communication, aids decision-making, and supports Spotify's software's evolution.
InfoQ·3yGoogle Releases Open-Source Vulnerability Scanning Tool
Google releases OSV-Scanner, an open-source front-end interface to the Open Source Vulnerability (OSV) database. Vulnerabilities are reported either in tabular format or, optionally, in the JSON-based OSV format. The format is designed to enforce version specification that aligns with the naming and schemes.
InfoQ·3yUber Reduces Logging Costs by 169x Using Compressed Log Processor (CLP)
Uber recently published how it dramatically reduced its logging costs using Compressed Log Processor (CLP) CLP is a tool capable of losslessly compressing text logs and searching them without decompression. It achieved a 169x compression ratio on Uber's log data, saving storage, memory, and disk/network bandwidth.
InfoQ·3yVite 4 Released, Replaces Babel with Faster Rust-based SWC
Vite 4.0 now uses Rollup 3.0 at build time. The new version of changelog carries over breaking changes that will require developers to wrap names that contain certain characters. Vite is distributed under the MIT open-source license, and must follow Vite’s contributing guide.
InfoQ·3yPHP 8 - Classes and Enums
PHP 8.0 has a new feature that automatically promotes class constructor parameters to corresponding class properties with the same name if the constructor parameters are declared with a visibility modifier and are not of type. The new feature adds support for enumerations, or enums, to declare an enumerated set of values that are similar to class objects.
InfoQ·4yNetflix Builds a Custom High-Throughput Priority Queue Backed by Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
Netflix built Timestone, a custom high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system. Netflix built the queuing system using open-source components such as Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Elasticsearch.
InfoQ·3yBest Practices for API Quality and Security
API quality and security are essential in software development, says Renato Losio. They are essential to access and process cloud, third party services. In this roundtable, we will discuss how, in general, we can as developers engineer to improve the quality and the security in our API design and management.